Page 5 - Lac culture operations - IINRG, Ranchi

Preface

Lac cultivation is the subsidiary source of income for rural and forest dwell-
ers. lndia has vast resource potential to produce lac. Major lac producing states in

lndia are Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madya Pradesh, West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra
Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. There are areas in the country which

have potential for lac production but due to lack of knowledge it is not done. ln
the existing lac cultivation areas, there is further scope to enhance productivity by

adoption of scientific lac cultivation technologies. Adoption of improved method
of lac cultivation is not only very easy in view of meagre requirement for labour,

time and money but also it generates high income in comparison to other agricul-

ture crops. Considering the requirement of students, farmers, entrepreneurs and
others, the second edition of this book is being presented in a more refined form.
New research findings also have been incorporated in easy and understandable

manner, so that every reader of this book is benefitted. Though, Hindi version of
this made available to all trainees of the institute but it was realised that students

and people of non-Hindi speaking areas do not have reading material in a lan-
guage which they understand. Therefore, this English edition has been brought

out so that lac cultivation - a useful agricultural intervention for resource con-

strained farmers-spreads effectively in such potential areas.

A K Jaiswal
K K Sharma
R Ramani